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Post by Harkovast on Jul 29, 2021 17:19:28 GMT
I only just realised that this show abbreviates to LotUS. That's cool. Here are pictures of the clothes people wear on each planet, and the uniform for Dreadlords human minions. I didn't draw the outfit for Infernus because that is basically what Hawk is wearing.
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Post by Horsie on Jul 31, 2021 2:44:27 GMT
The Geonia outfit is basically my "exploring mines and other dark, dirty places" getup, just replace the shoulder pads on the boilersuit with long sleeves
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Post by Canuovea on Jul 31, 2021 15:18:32 GMT
The Dreadlord fellow might be a douchebag, but he has some good taste in clothing. I also like the Datax set. Those two are my favourite. Cornucopis is probably a third. Not that the others don't work, just that those three are ones I'd personally consider wearing (minus any emblems, of course).
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Post by Harkovast on Aug 1, 2021 17:42:11 GMT
I originally imagined Hawk as the hero, but now I've come to write it up, Princess Sapphire and Hawk are both the heroes. Really I think the show is about this boy and girl who are very different but are friends and cooperate, using their different skills and knowledge to battle evil. They aren't antagonist or in competition with each other at all. Hawk and Princess Sapphire working together is the whole heart of what the show is about.
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Post by Canuovea on Aug 1, 2021 19:49:09 GMT
That makes sense.
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Post by Harkovast on Aug 1, 2021 20:19:34 GMT
If I sent you a copy of episode 1, feel free to post your thoughts on here for how you got on.
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Post by Canuovea on Aug 1, 2021 20:20:23 GMT
I'll give it a read after I finish one of my lessons I need to write.
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Post by Harkovast on Aug 2, 2021 0:54:49 GMT
I started out with Princess Sapphire being mostly kind, but writing her she ended up more commanding and take charge. She's the heir to the Celestial Throne of the Omnispheres, after all. Rather than being sentimental, she's concerned about her people, who she has a responsibility to care for. She has a great sense of duty, and cares about the traditions of the Omnispheres. She knows lots of information about the Omnispheres, but its more like factual information. She doesn't have day to day experiences of life outside the palace or much in the way of street smarts.
Hawk, is more hot headed and rash. He's not crazy, but he has to restrain himself from jumping in when injustice is happening. He's meant to be a working class kind of hero, whose had pretty tough life under Dreadlord but hasn't let it crush his noble spirit. He's got a noble spirit, which allows him to draw on the Ultra Sword's power.
Widget is good natured and innocent. He has lots of knowledge about machines and technology, but he doesn't always make the wisest decisions, getting him into funny scrapes. He's enthusiastic and keen to help, and has an odd way of talking where he prefaces peoples names with "friend" a lot. He's funny and cute but also useful.
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Post by Canuovea on Aug 4, 2021 7:49:05 GMT
A few thoughts.
1) If they are in the chamber with the sword when the attack happens, why not grab it and go? There could be a reason, but nobody even suggests it so I'm not sure why they don't.
2) Something hinting at the stasis effect of the pod earlier, like when they get in, would be appreciated. That way the time passing will make sense intuitively. Or perhaps something to say how long it has been. I dunno. As it is, I think seeing the worker situation and then seeing the escape pod might confuse some folks. Remember, never be The Witcher Netflix show when it comes to timeline management.
3) You might want to set up earlier that Sapphire and her family cannot just automatically use the sword because all this time I'm kinda wondering why she doesn't use it. She brought it, after all. Yes, she thought Hawk used it when he didn't, but despite that it seems a bit odd. Why wouldn't she be able to use it?
But I like it overall. It feels kinda 80s, but newish. Harkening back to stuff like She-Ra and He-Man, and such.
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Post by Harkovast on Aug 4, 2021 13:08:19 GMT
1- They leave the room with the sword when the attack starts because they don't know who is attacking or why so the main focus is moving the royal family to safety. They don't yet know the scale of the attack or that the palace defences have been turned off, so they don't know that the sword is any safer with them than with anyone else. They also don't know that the person attacking wants the sword or knows about it. The sword is in the middle of the Celestial Palace, normally the most secure place in the Omnispheres, protected by an army of Stellar Guards and masses of defences.
2- I don't know if there is a chance to explain how the escape pods work. I think once Hawk discovers her, its pretty evident what the deal with them is.
3- The Princess doesn't know how to use the sword (beyond swinging it around.) Since it has only just been built no one has tried to use it before, so neither her nor anyone else would have had chance to learn to use it. Dreadlord is the first person to try to use it, Hawk is the second. Hawk manages to intuit how to use a small amount of its power after a while of carrying it. It wasn't especially designed for the Royal Family to use and if they just grabbed it and ran at the Dreadbots they would be banging a regular sword on armoured robots, like when Hawk first used it. Hawk seems to the Princess to be a mighty warrior, who used the sword to destroy a Dreadbot, which Widget seems to confirm, so lets him carry it as she thinks he was effective with it (and he will need a weapon). He eventually proves to be useful with it for real. In theory the Princess could practice with it and figure out how to use it eventually, since she has a noble heart, but since is already doing this, it isn't something they bother with. This hasn't come up yet but it took her a lot of practice to use the teleporting, forcefield making tiara.
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Post by Harkovast on Aug 4, 2021 13:13:42 GMT
Also, Hawk after using the sword, offers it back to her and she declines since she thinks he would be better with it.
The main characters are meant to cooperate. They don't start squabbling over a sword and who gets to play with it.
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Post by Canuovea on Aug 5, 2021 0:37:54 GMT
1) But if the Sword is in literally in the most secure place, why would they be moving the royal family from there at all? At least before they have time to send a message, or runner, back to let them know the real situation? If it is about getting the family to safety, wouldn't safety be in that same room? Under almost any circumstances?
2) I suppose so. It would let the particularly easily surprised (or inattentive) folks in the audience figure it out with the characters, which has merit.
3) "It is not yours save by unhappy chance. It might have been mine. It should be mine. Give it to me!'" More seriously, though, I suppose it would make sense to have both be able to use the sword if one was... incapacitated... but frankly, you're right. They need to get the gang together for the first time, and the Princess and Widget all have abilities already. Just for the sake of it happening at all, it makes sense narratively.
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Post by Harkovast on Aug 5, 2021 2:26:15 GMT
Regarding how secure they think the palace is....if you pay attention the guards initial plan is NOT to go to the escape pods. We don't know where they were headed when they were cut off by Dreadbots. A guard shouts for them to get to the escape pods while they fight the robots, taking a different corridor to the one that guards originally wanted to use. The guards were not on the way to the escape pods via the scenic route. Presumably they were being moved to some kind of panic room or defensible chamber that would be the normal procedure in any attack on the palace. When the normal plan failed, they then go down a different corridor to reach the escape pods as a desperate alternative. Remember that an attack on the palace should normally be impossible. The Raiders aren't capable of such an attack and the good guys don't know about any other enemy. And with their defences up, the palace would be able to destroy any attackers easily. Moving the royal family is just the normal thing to do as soon as anything happens.
The Ultra Sword is surrounded by loads of machinery and stuff when we see it in its chamber. While we don't know what all this stuff does, it is safe to assume it would need to be powered down and made safe before someone could just grab the sword. The guards would presumably have intended to do this sort of thing, but the palace was over run too quickly. We don't get to hear what the guards are planning to do with the sword, or their plans regarding anything else they were doing in response to the attack.
There is NO WAY The Stellar Guard would wait for runners or more information before moving the royal family to safety as the Royal family's safety is one of their most important duties. If there was even a possibility of danger, they would move to protect the royals.
Also I think this is a really strange point to be hung up on.
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Post by Harkovast on Aug 5, 2021 2:42:14 GMT
Another point regarding why the Princess doesn't carry the sword...she isn't very interested in it as a thing in itself.
Before the attack, she thought it was boring and didn't care. She took it to keep it away from the bad guys, not because its something she personally desires. Hawk is better at using it, so he he's the one that uses it.
As long as its safe from Dreadlord, why would she care which one of them is specifically holding it? The only reason it is important to her is that she doesn't want Dreadlord to have it, not because she wants it for herself.
Hawk actually has the same attitude. He offered to give it back to her and carried it because she said he should.
For Hawk and the Princess Sapphire to start fighting over an object that would give them power would seem really out of character.
Neither of them personally is all that invested in owning the Ultra Sword, which is why its good for them to have it. If the King and Queen were restored tomorrow, Hawk would happily hand over the sword without hesitation.
Dreadlord, on the other hand, is obsessed with the thing and what it will allow him to do.
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Post by Canuovea on Aug 5, 2021 4:15:51 GMT
So their normal procedure is to make a trip to a select defensible chamber that was more defensible than the room the sword was in? Well, if they need all the machinery to keep the sword then it might not be the most secure, that makes sense.
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